The fact that you exist is a subjective truth. Subjective meaning, of course, contingent on the existence of minds, and I don’t think this is at all controversial.
If you exist, and you are in fact your mind, then your existence as a mind is contingent of the fact that some mind does exist somewhere, I.E your mind. If no minds exist than your mind does not exist. Therefore the existence of any mind cannot be an objective fact because it is contingent on the existence of that same mind.
This is not to lay doubt on the fact that you exist. You can know that you exist through Descartes I think therefore I am. What this is, is more of a critique of the Objective, Subjective dichotomy.
I probably exist, but as you are not me and you cannot know for certain that I am thinking, you cannot know that I exist, but the knowledge that you exist is the least controversial piece of knowledge you can conceive of, and yet it is subjective.
The reason I bring this up is, as I said, not to shake your confidence in your existence, but to force you to reconsider the usefulness of subjective facts about the universe we live in.
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